The Australian Open will begin this Sunday with the presence of six of the nine Argentine tennis players classified for the first Grand Slam of the 2023 season. They will be presented throughout the first day at Melbourne Park, which will take place between Sunday night and Monday morning in Argentina.
In the first round of competition, scheduled at 9:00 p.m., there will be a duel between compatriots: will face Francisco Cerúndolo (30th) and Guido Pellawho returns to the major circuit after improving from a chronic knee injury that put him on the brink of retirement.
The 2016 Davis Cup champion has no ranking. He just played again in November, at the Challenger in Montevideo, after a year of his previous meeting, who lost to the Spanish Pedro Martínez at the ATP 250 in Moscow. For his part, Francisco Cerúndolo, whom he beat in Buenos Aires 2019, will have his absolute debut in the Australian majorwhere he will seek his first Grand Slam tournament victory.
At the same time, Tomás Etcheverry (80th) will debut against Frenchman Gregoire Barrere (88th). Then, not before 1.30 on Monday, Sebastián Báez (he will face the Australian Jaso Kubler) and Federico Coria (against Marton Fucsovics) will take to the pitch. Later, at 3.30, will have its premiere Nadia Podoroska will play against Leolia Jeanjean.
The rest of the Argentines at the Australian Open
For the second day will be the debut of Diego Schwartzman (23rd seed), who comes from leaving the Auckland ATP due to injury. He will have to play the Ukrainian Oleksii Krutykh. In addition, the other two Argentines will play: Pedro Cachín (59th) against the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta (15th) and Facundo Bagnis (90th) against the Englishman Daniel Evans (27th).
Australian Open: Awards
The Australian Open will dish out a tournament-record prize pool of just over $53 million, an increase of more than three percent from 2022, and champions, both men and women, will win $1,998,278.
